Darby Lawsuit Reveals 'Obsession' Edit Was Taken From Director as $510 Million Hit Took Shape
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Updated · Dread Central · Sep 1
Darby Lawsuit Reveals 'Obsession' Edit Was Taken From Director as $510 Million Hit Took Shape
3 articles · Updated · Dread Central · Sep 1
Summary
A 135-page lawsuit by executive producer Leonora Ann Darby alleges "Obsession" director Curry Barker temporarily lost editorial control before the cut was returned to him during post-production.
The complaint says Darby pushed to restore Barker's control, urged additional photography, and gave story notes to clarify the leads' relationship and arcs across the first two acts.
It also alleges Darby pressed the film to fully embrace its supernatural mythology, making the One Wish Willow definitively real rather than leaving events ambiguous or possibly in Bear's head.
Those claims add creative detail to Darby's broader profit-participation suit against Tea Shop Productions and producers James Harris and Mark Lane over a film that grossed $510 million on an $800,000 budget.